Summer is quickly coming to an end and the quality of movies is heading downhill just as fast. Labor Day is next weekend and that represents the official end of the summer movie season. Next weekend we will wrap up the summer with a box office report of the biggest films of summer 2010. For [...]
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Web Crawler: Pictures Photoshopped with Na’vi
It takes a skilled person to photoshop a picture well. On top of that, it takes a lot of skill to make it look good. Flickr, the picture-sharing website, has a collection under the name of Avatized. On that account, over 100 photos have been twisted and edited to make the characters of the picture [...]
Avatar Prequel Novel to be Penned by James Cameron?
Jon Landau, producer of Avatar, spoke to MTV about the film and dropped big news concerning the franchise. He said that director James Cameron is going to write a novel detailing the back story of Avatar, giving fans insight into Na’vi/human relations on Pandora, Col. Quaritch and his campaign on the deadly planet, the death [...]
Official Trailer for The Last Airbender
You most likely saw a Super Bowl spot for director M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender this past Sunday, but now we have the official full length trailer (via Yahoo) for you to see. From the director who brought us The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs has returned with a new film titled The Last [...]
Box Office: Avatar Dethroned by Dear John
For seven weeks Avatar was the top dog at the box office. That was until Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried dropped a romance called Dear John into theaters and teen girls everywhere went to see it. For the last two months Avatar has had little competition at box office and has been the number one [...]
Avatar Sinks Titanic as Highest Grossing Film Ever
If your sick of hearing about how Avatar is breaking all these box office records, then this will probably be one of the last articles we run on the matter. That’s because Avatar has now broken the last big record it had yet to accomplish: highest grossing movie of all time. On Tuesday, Avatar topped [...]
Box Office: Avatar Hits 7 Weeks at Number 1; Crosses $2 Billion Worldwide
Continuing its reign of terror on the box office, Avatar has now made it seven weeks at number one. Grossing $31 million this past weekend, Avatar only dropped 10% from the previous weekend, and is now less than $7 million away from topping Titanic as the highest grossing film of all time. Even with competition [...]
Box Office: Avatar Now Highest Grossing Worldwide Film of All Time with $1.85 Billion
Following the success of James Cameron’s Avatar has become one of the most interesting stories in box office history. Most importantly because it will soon become the highest grossing film in history as it takes aim at Cameron’s other big film, Titanic. This weekend Avatar made it six straight weekends at number one and on [...]
Two New Posters for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender
This summer director M. Night Shyamalan will bring audiences his latest feature film titled The Last Airbender. Typically Shyamalan writes and directs his films which are based on original pieces of work. This time around, The Sixth Sense director is adapting a live-action adaptation of the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Yes, it is [...]
Watch This: Behind-the-Scenes Look at Avatar
Yahoo Movies has this 22-minute video which is a behind-the-scenes look at Avatar featuring commentary from various cast members. The video is titled “Creating the World of Pandora” and is a detailed look at how the movie came together. I really enjoyed seeing how the different creatures and plants were created and the work that [...]
Box Office: Avatar Crosses $500 Million in 5 Weeks; Book of Eli Opens Strong with $38 Million
Oh man is the box office on fire! James Cameron’s Avatar is showing no signs of slowing down as it has now crossed $500 million at the domestic box office. Avatar now stands only $28 million away from passing The Dark Knight (#2 all time) and less than $100 million from that other James Cameron [...]
Full List of 2010 Golden Globe Winners
Last night NBC aired The Golden Globes which presents awards in both film and television from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. This is the last big telecast (and only important one) before the Academy Awards in March. It usually serves as a precursor to what we can expect to see come Oscar nomination time. The [...]
Web Crawler: ‘Avatar’ and ‘Pocahontas’ Mash-Up
There have been many comparisons to James Cameron’s Avatar this past holiday season. Many felt that it was an amalgam of such great films as Pocahontas and Dances With Wolves with a hint of Fern Gully. While this may sound true, it doesn’t make Avatar any less a great film. I had been waiting for [...]
Box Office: Avatar Crosses $1 Billion Worldwide
The 2009 box office ended on a high note as James Cameron’s Avatar crossed one billion dollars in worldwide box office sales. This means that Cameron is now the only director to have two movies cross one billion dollars with Avatar now joining the list that contains Cameron’s last film, 1997′s Titanic. While the worldwide [...]
Box Office: ‘Avatar’, ‘Sherlock’, and ‘Alvin’ Break Records Over Holiday Weekend
It took an indigenous planet, a detective, and a trio of musical chipmunks to make Hollywood have a very merry Christmas. This holiday weekend witnessed numerous box office records being broken. Instead of coal under the tree, studio executives will be seeing dollar signs. The big winner of the weekend was once again James Cameron’s [...]
Movie Review: James Cameron’s Avatar
The magic of movies is in the ability to create a visual escape for an audience. Not in recent memory has a movie created a world that encompasses the idea of escapism better than Avatar. Director James Cameron has created a visual masterpiece. Watching the film in 3D on IMAX is an incredible experience that [...]
Stephen Lang As The X-Men’s Cable?
Could Avatar’s Stephen Lang play the X-Men’s favorite mutant from the future, Cable? Well, he definitely looks the part and judging by his performances is such films as Tombstone, Gettysburg and this holiday seasons Avatar he also has the chops. With 20th Century Fox’s X-Men film franchise in limbo right now Cable could be the [...]
One Final Poster for James Cameron’s Avatar
IMAX has released a final poster for James Cameron’s Avatar which will arrive in theaters now in less than 10 days. The feature will be shown in both digital and IMAX 3D when the film opens on December 18th everywhere. Check out the poster after the jump.
Web Crawler: Avatar: The Game
According to Conan O’Brien, Avatar‘s video game adaptation may have been rushed. No doubt the hype surrounding the movie has steadily increased and marketing the film as been an expensive push on TV and the web, but there are always concerns when movies get video game tie-ins. Excluding Spider-Man 2, most games are made to [...]
Watch This New Extended TV Spot for Avatar!
Last night Fox aired a new TV spot for Avatar which premiered new footage. Shown during a commercial break for Glee, the Avatar TV spot is similar to the trailer which we have seen, however keep watching and you will see some new footage! If you weren’t sold on how amazing Avatar is going to [...]
